Nicu Buculei wrote:
Máirín Duffy wrote:
I started work on icon #1 working from the style / color palette Diana
has set with her new icon theme:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/NewIconDevelopment
I am not very fond of the animations in the icon, in fact i used to hate
the red notification in up2date, it was too obtrusive.
Yeh, I agree. That's why I'm thinking about just having a somewhat subtle color
highlight (that does not glow, or throb, or anything!!!!!! it stays put!!! ;-) )
to indicate an update is available. Stuff blinking on the screen gets quite
out-of-hand!
As you say in the wiki, going without CDROM will permit sub-icons. I
agree about dropping the CDROM, it has no place here, the update is made
over the network, not from optical media.
As for sub-icons, why not going with the most obvious choices: red
exclamation mark for security updates, yellow or orange exclamation mark
for other updates, arrow for download in progress, green checkmark for
success and red X for error?
Well, I'm thinking arrows for download in progress definitely. I was thinking
about arrows in the same style as the 'home' icon is in the folder here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/BluecurveAndBeyond?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=screen01_28.png
You know with the blue color and white outline accents. Maybe a bit more upright
though.
I do have a set of critical / warning update icons I did for RHN (system update
status ones at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/BluecurveLibrary) which we
can use. The thing is though, I think what we have are the following, in order
to least to most severe:
- Enhancement Updates
- Bug updates
- Security update: Low
- Security update: Moderate
- Security update: Important
- Security update: Critical
That's a lot of different states. :-/
If anybody has any thoughts about what could be used to represent the
different icons needed or any ideas on improvements to what I've put
up or even if you just want to play around with the SVG feel free!
What do you guys think about the perspective of panel icons? Flat or
isometric to match the rest?
I find this question hard to answer. To me the flat icon look plain and
boring and the isometric one not very readable at this small size
(24x24) - but do not understand me wrong, i like very much how the icons
look at the large size (with the 'isometric perspective' as a favorite).
Yeh the lines on the flat ones are a lot more readable at such a small size, but
the isometric ones, while more challenging to get nice lines on at a small size
are easier to figure out waht they are because you get to see more than one
side. For example, I showed the flat update ones I did to someone and they
thought the package looked like a terracotta plant pot. :) It's much harder to
tell what something is if it is flat.
~m
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